Autumnal: A Public Domain Print Shop Special Collection

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If you’ve followed my blog for anything length of time you’ll know that my Public Domain Print Shop is a curated collection of FREE public domain artwork I’ve sourced from online galleries and archives around the internet. But the thing is, I can’t include EVERYTHING I find, and there is some good stuff that often doesn’t make it into the print shop’s “core collection” for one reason or another.

That’s why I thought it would be fun to curate some mini “special collections” just like your local art museum has!

While these exhibits may contain an image or two from my core collection, they will mainly be curated out of images that *aren’t* currently in the print shop.

For this first special collection I decided to curate an entire group of artwork inspired by Autumn! These free high resolution fall art downloads perfect for printed use or as Fall artwork to display on your Frame TV! Enjoy!

The Free Vintage Fall Art Collection

An open access art collection of the best free printable vintage fall art, autumn paintings, landscape etching, moody portraits and harvest still lifes currently available online and in the public domain organized by genre:

Crisp & Cozy Still Life Paintings For Fall

A hand-picked selection of free vintage fall still life paintings from the public domain showcasing freshly harvested fall apples, pears, grapes and pumpkins bathed in golden autumn light.

Still life with pumpkin, peach and grapes – Carl Schuch
Johannes Borman – “Festoon of Fruits”
Eugène Henri Cauchois – “Bouquet with daisies and gold lacquer”
Félix Ziem – “Nature Morte Au Potiron”
Charles Ethan Porter “Still Life with Apples”
Charles Ethan Porter's vintage fall still life painting entitled "Still Life with Corn"
Charles Ethan Porter “Still Life with Corn”
Still Life with Pumpkin, Plums, Cherries, Figs and Jug – Augustin Théodule Ribot
Flowers in a Blue Vase – Adolphe Monticelli
Justus Van Huysum The Elder – “Still Life With Flowers”
Autumn Still Life – William Merritt Chase
free vintage autumn wall art by Charles Francois Daubigny entitled "La Vigne (The Vine)"
Charles Francois Daubigny “La Vigne (The Vine)”
Robert Spear Dunning “Apples”

Autumnal Animal Art

From turkeys to foxes, owls and horses, I’ve curated some of my favorite fall-inspired animal paintings from the public domain and rounded them up for you here!

vintage Autumn lithograph by Louis Prang & Co. entitled "Bird With Autumn Foliage" showing a bird with fall leaves
Louis Prang & Co. “Bird With Autumn Foliage”
Vintage lithograph of a turkey by François-Nicolas Martinet entitled "Meleagris Gallopavo - Le Dindon"
François-Nicolas Martinet “Meleagris Gallopavo – Le Dindon”
vintage Fall Landscape painting with turkeys by Teodor Ziomek entitled "Harvest"
Teodor Ziomek “Harvest”
Philipp Ferdinand de Hamilton “Pheasants”
Monogrammist AG “Portrait of a riding horse”
Jacques-Laurent Agasse “Study of a Fox”
Hans Hoffmann “Red Squirrel”
Moses Haughton “An Owl”
Juliusz Kossak “Horse’s head”
M. Gurcin “Seated Hound (19th Century)”
vintage turkey print by Oudart/Motte entitled "Meleagris americana (Wild Turkey)"
Oudart/Motte “Meleagris americana (Wild Turkey)”
John James Audubon "Plate 1 of Birds of America - Wild Turkey"
John James Audubon “Plate 1 of Birds of America – Wild Turkey”

Colorful Fall Landscape Paintings

Golden trees, winding paths, and fields alive with color along on quiet country roads, fill this colorful collection of free fall landscape wall art.

Autumn Tangle – William Henry Holmes
Alice Pike Barney – “The Field”
Hugo Darnaut – “Spätherbsttag”
Harvest Month in Plankenberg – Emil Jakob Schindler
Camille Pissarro “Boulevard Montmartre, Afternoon Sunshine”
Jasper Francis Cropsey “Landscape”
John Frederick Kensett “Gathering Storm on Long Island Sound”
Frederic Edwin Church “Autumn Landscape, Vermont”
Johann Till the younger – “Landschaft in Niederösterreich”
Camille Pissarro “Autumn, Poplars, Eragny”
Free vintage landscape painting by L. Clarence Ball entitled "The Red Maple"
L. Clarence Ball “The Red Maple”
Frederic Edwin Church – “Woods in Autumn”
free vintage fall landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church entitled "Autumn Landscape (North Carolina)"
Frederic Edwin Church “Autumn Landscape (North Carolina)”
Landscape – Charles H. Moore
free vintage fall landscape painting by Thomas Moran entitled "Valley of the Catawissa in Autumn"
Thomas Moran “Valley of the Catawissa in Autumn”
free vintage landscape art by Edward W. Nichols entitled "Autumn Lake, New Hampshire"
Edward W. Nichols “Autumn Lake, New Hampshire”
Alexander Helwig Wyant – “Autumn in the Adirondacks”
free vintage landscape art painting by Hugo Darnaut entitled "Landschaft mit Birken (Landscape With Birch Trees)"
Hugo Darnaut “Landschaft mit Birken (Landscape With Birch Trees)”

Moody Autumn Landscape Art

A curated collection of free fall landscape paintings featuring moody forest glens, deep autumn shadows and dappled amber light sourced from public domain archives around the world.

Glade in Autumn – Alexander H. Wyant
Autumn Landscape and Pool – Alexander H. Wyant
October Morning – Franklin De Haven
October Day – Jean Charles Cazin
Free vintage autumn painting of fall trees by Gustave Courbet entitled "Wooded Landscape"
Gustave Courbet “Wooded Landscape”
George Inness “Autumn Woods”
Władysław Rossowski – “Way-Side Shrine”
Autumn at Arkville – Alexander H. Wyant
Morning in October – J. Francis Murphy
Autumn in Arkville – Alexander H. Wyant
Near the Village, October – George Inness
Nicholas Chevalier – “Harvest”

Fall Portraits & Autumnal Figure Paintings

Harvest scenes, amber-hued ladies, and ochre-clad gents set against a backdrop of changing autumn leaves fill this curated collection of fall-inspired portrait paintings for Autumn.

vintage Fall portrait painting with turkeys by Eugenio Spreafico entitled "The Doomed Ones"
Eugenio Spreafico “The Doomed Ones”
free vintage fall painting by John Whetten Ehninger entitled "October"
John Whetten Ehninger “October”
Heywood Hardy – “Return From The Hunt”
Winslow Homer “Man with a Knapsack”
Olga Wisinger-Florian “Falling Leaves”
free vintage fall landscape art with fishing boat by Edward Mitchell Bannister entitled "Untitled (landscape, boat moored near stream, man walking in foreground)"
Edward Mitchell Bannister “Untitled”
fall portrait painting by Alexei Harlamov entitled "Young girl with a basket of apples"
Alexei Harlamov “Young girl with a basket of apples”
free vintage fall portrait painting of a woman picking apples by Henry Herbert La Thangue entitled "Sussex Apples"
Henry Herbert La Thangue “Sussex Apples”
free vintage autumn portrait painting by Winslow Homer entitled "Autumn"
Winslow Homer “Autumn”
free vintage fall art portrait painting by George Romney entitled "Mrs. Charles Frederick (Martha Rigden)"
George Romney “Mrs. Charles Frederick (Martha Rigden)”
Alfred Stevens – “Autumn Flowers”
J. M. W. Turner “Self-Portrait”

Fall Landscape Art Etchings

Classic black-and-white etchings capture the countryside in late autumn in this timeless public domain collection of free fall landscape etchings.

Autumn In New England (Cider Making) – G.B. Durrie ; Currier & Ives
Pumpkins Among the Corn
A Morning – Elbridge Kingsley
Tree Filled with Crows – Charles-François Daubigny
Greylock – Elbridge Kingsley
Autumn’s Grey and Melancholy – Henry Farrer

Spooky Vintage Fall Art For Halloween

Looking for something a little more eerie for spooky season? Then head over to my dedicated Halloween collection of printable Halloween art. A gallery filled with everything from happy pumpkins and moody portraits, to spooky sketches and eerie landscapes. (Plus a few more macabre paintings and even some early spirit photography!)

I’m excited to bring your more of these themed special collections in the future! It should be a really fun way to share even more amazing artwork in the public domain without totally overwhelming The Public Domain Print Shop’s core collection.

NOTE: The images in this gallery are low resolution preview images only and therefore not suitable for printing, to download a HIGH RESOLUTION FILE of any of the images below for free, simply click on the desired image and you will be taken to the digital gallery archive where that image is hosted. Once there, you will be able to download a high resolution file of your image to print from.

If you are interested in learning more about The Public Domain Print Shop and how you can use artwork in the Public Domain to decorate your home FOR FREE CLICK HERE to read my previous blog post where I talk all about about it!

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